albertcardona

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by albertcardona 19y ago
Those who can write properly own the future. What other ending do you need?
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by albertcardona 19y ago
Some researchers have implemented in software toy ecosystems which eventually developed viruses and parasites and prey-predator cycles and what not. The very first one, by the way, was implemented in Lisp (cited and commented upon in the bo
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by albertcardona 19y ago
In similar words: http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2000/06/09/choose-life/
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by albertcardona 19y ago
Not really. We are at a new plateau, if you want: stuff that used to be hard is now standard. So people can lift up their heads and get going with something new.
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by albertcardona 19y ago
At UCLA, students are graded with a bell curve. They have become masters at figuring out exactly how much should they study, relative to their peers, to fall within the right tail of the curve. Students no longer share notes, neither talk t
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by albertcardona 19y ago
A must read for people at Sun working on Solaris. Particularly: "Open source does work, but it is most definitely not a panacea. If there's a cautionary tale here, it is that you can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie
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by albertcardona 19y ago
It's about time PHB notice this tiny little fact: they are the only ones looking forward to any sort of meeting. Keeping a "this year I will do this and that" schedule is about as much schedule as it was ever required.
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by albertcardona 19y ago
Never mind that keeping conversations inside facebook is what keeps facebook nerwork active and running. The moment proper emailing happens outside, facebook is dead.
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by albertcardona 19y ago
At least in the academic environment a lot of people are aware that, by exercising, they can then concentrate at a task for longer (hours instead of half-hour) and tackle harder problems. That biological research could not figure out and te
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Chess match unveils underlying widespread belief in a soul(technologyreview.com)
2 points by albertcardona 19y ago|1 comments
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by albertcardona 19y ago
I came to the USA following a professor I just wanted to work with. He came here in the 80's because of the weather (no kidding), given an existing research environment similar to Europe. Before landing here I thought the USA was a great co
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by albertcardona 19y ago
"Not according to Freedom House." The website you cite defines a Free Country as one where there is: 1) a broad scope for open political competition, 2) a climate for respect of civil liberties, 3) significant independent civic life, 4) ind
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by albertcardona 19y ago
As a European living in the USA: the USA is much less free than any country in Europe. But not for lack of noble laws, in which the USA excels, but rather, for lack of public education that would entitle everyone to be aware and enjoy such
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by albertcardona 20y ago
Drugs work because your body has the ability to react to them. If your body can react to drugs is, usually, because there are internal receptors that can bind to them. But of course naturally occurring concentrations of 'drug'-like componen
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by albertcardona 20y ago
So true (about Python vs. C). Same with java: I spend a lot of the time filling in straw. Python makes me think because almost every line is actually meaningful. As for how long with a new language: speaking without quantitative data, I'd s
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by albertcardona 20y ago
When speed matters, what you need is a good hacker to make a smart-ass elegant program that goes around the bottle-necks. But I'll attempt not to avoid your question altogether: from my own personal testing, SBCL is fastest. My bias is my o
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by albertcardona 20y ago
Indeed very unfortunate. From numenta's website descriptions of nupic (the C++ HTM implementation), one can immediately shout Greenspun's Tenth Rule. What motivated my wild comparison of HTMs and Lisp is: - HTMs do not distinguish program a
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The brain thinks in Lisp parse trees(spectrum.ieee.org)
7 points by albertcardona 20y ago|5 comments